Moore Has Less

Posted On 13 Dec 2017 / 0 Comment

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Until very late Tuesday night, Republican Roy Moore still had a chance. But Democrat Doug Jones pulled off an incredible narrow victory in the special election for an Alabama Senate seat. A win for Moore would have been… awkward, at best for the Grand Old Party. Forget Moore’s long history of judicial misconduct. The fairly recent accusations from women who say a 30-something-year-old Moore approached them, “dated” them, and (in some cases) sexually assaulted them as teenagers… made him a pariah in much of the national party…

…But, as President Trump’s team and the Republican National Committee insisted, the Alabama Senate race was up to the voters of Alabama. And it really came down to black voters…

…Turnout was extremely high in Alabama’s heavily black counties, between 72 and 77 percent of the 2016 (Presidential) election turnout. It was just 55-60 percent in rural white counties. (All figures are from the Cook Political Report.) In Russell County, which is 40 percent black, Jones beat The New York Times’ estimate by 14 points.,,

…Exit polling at around 6 p.m. EST showed that nearly 30 percent of voters at that time were African American. Exit polling also found that African American women, who comprise 18 percent of the electorate, voted for Jones by a margin of 97 to 3…

…Ninety-eight percent of black women voted for Jones, according to polling by CNN, while 63 percent of white women voted for Moore. About 30 percent of white voters overall chose Jones…

…I know it’s easy to get confused by a flurry of statistics. Go back and read the second fact in the last paragraph. Sixty-three percent of white women in Alabama voted for a man who has been repeatedly accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with under aged girls. Good Lord, I bet they even go to church every Sunday… and shop at the mall in Gadsden that had Moore on its “blacklist” because teenaged girls found him creepy…

…Moore came frighteningly close to winning. Having a wacko like him in the Senate would have been catastrophic. Most GOP leaders are publicly and privately glad Jones won. What remains to be see is what long-term damage Trump and the GOP have suffered for backing a presumed pedophile into a senatorial election…

…The system worked… this time. Black voters rose up and took control of Alabama’s special election. But, damn… it was close…